Example sentences of "the [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term . |
| 2 | In accordance with general practice in Jamaica the prosecution disclosed to the defence the depositions of those witnesses taken at the committal hearing , but not their earlier statements to the police ; they did not disclose to the defence before or during the trial a statement made to the police by the deceased 's husband and two statements made by the deceased 's sister , relating to incidents not covered in their depositions , which were inconsistent with their evidence at trial . |
| 3 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 4 | There is the possibility of considerable tension between the response the Children Act requires and policies and practice amounting to neglect or harassment of unsited traveller families . |
| 5 | She was silently amused at the forms the approaches took : the clumsy grope from Bill Muggeridge ; the galumphing puppyishness of Corbett Farraday ; the appraising eye of Tom Tedder ( for either loyalty to Miss Gilberd , or lethargy , prevented anything more tangible ) . |
| 6 | In the stand the Directors ' Box emptied quickly but two men , sitting together , did not join in the rapid movement towards the Board Room . |
| 7 | Shakespeare 's drama is celebrated for its poetry , a compliment that on the surface suggests ideologically neutral approval of its language , but which also belies suppositions about the attitudes the plays ' language articulates . |
| 8 | When they reached the stairway the flights of stairs were almost obscured by the thick clouds of smoke . |
| 9 | Ah right so the the direction the clouds are moving in against this frosted glass screen |
| 10 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |
| 11 | The wind , blasting up the valley , decided the direction the trees would fall . |
| 12 | All too often anyone passing through rural England hardly senses the farm worker 's presence , for the fields are deceptively still and during the day-time the villages can also be devoid of any human activity . |
| 13 | Along the garden-wall the bees |
| 14 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 15 | Some Members have claimed that the coverage the committees have received has enhanced their standing and authority . |
| 16 | When they reached the Manor the children who had been watching from the window ran to greet Tamar . |
| 17 | Whereas the support the farmers received right , has always been coupled to production , so the more they produce , the more support they get , the higher , the higher their incomes . |
| 18 | When a table is transferred into the Working-Set the entries are allocated as bundles to groups of lexicographers . |
| 19 | Warming-up figures like the infinity or horizontal figure of eight , and straight passes in trail are the introductory manoeuvres which involve least complication and yet teach the flyers the arts of timing and speed control . |
| 20 | Since the death of the writer the insults and threats he had dealt out to each member of his family took on a new significance . |
| 21 | To simplify preparation of the accounts the parties may agree it appropriate for the completion date to be at the end of a month . |
| 22 | We have seen that in the media reporting at the stage of the trial a women 's sexual conduct is often brought into question . |
| 23 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 24 | On the final day of the trial the police noted that around £385,000-worth of stolen material had now been recovered , with James 's cooperation . |
| 25 | If any of the following requirements have not been met , the audit report should state that fact : proper accounting records must be kept proper returns must be obtained from branches not visited by the auditor the accounts must be in agreement with the accounting records and returns all information and explanations considered necessary for the audit must be obtained . |
| 26 | If the omission to apply for a licence or lodge and intimate an objection extends beyond the quarterly meeting of the board the subsections , of course , are of no avail . |
| 27 | Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ? |
| 28 | This is because in considering what are the interests of the shareholders the directors are not obliged actually to consider what the subjective desires of the shareholders might be . |
| 29 | Consider the rules required to form the sentence The headlights penetrated the darkness . |
| 30 | Some peasants effectively found themselves forced to become landless agricultural labourers on the estates the Ottomans and mamluks carved out for themselves , or even forced into the cities . |